Palo Alto native Matthew Summers lent his musical talent for the Inauguration Day ceremony on Wednesday as a member of the U.S. Marine Band, known as "The President s Own."
Bay Area transit operators raise alarm about virus cases, some threatening to stop work
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A Valley Transportation Agency bus stops to pick up riders on First Street in San Jose. A South Bay bus drivers union is sounding the alarm about rising coronavirus infections.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
Transit operators are sounding the alarm about rising coronavirus infections among their ranks and asking for stricter safety measures, with some South Bay bus and train drivers threatening to stop work because of what they deem unsafe conditions if their demands are not met.
Infections among 2,100 employees at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority had jumped to 149 since the beginning of the pandemic, rising at a rate of around 40 employees a month for the past three, spokesman Ken Blackstone said. Its largest union puts the count higher at 162 since March, said John Courtney, the president of ATU Local 265, which represents around 1,500 mechanics, drivers
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Change of Plans: Transit Funding Priorities Shift in the Silicon Valley
Santa Clara County cities rebel against the agency s proposed plan to spend most of the Measure B funds on a Silicon Valley BART extension. January 22, 2021, 8am PST | Diana Ionescu |
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The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is retooling its plan for how to spend Measure B tax dollars after several cities protested the VTA s plan to spend most of the money on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) extension to downtown San Jose. Now, the agency s revised plan will reallocate the funding to support more projects promised in the measure, reports Aldo Toledo for the Mercury News.
Live updates: Biden’s tone, flurry of orders underscore new day for U.S. By Vanessa Arredondo, Dominic Fracassa and Rita Beamish
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their new administration got to work in a nation besieged by a raging pandemic, economic calamity and deep political divisions. Biden signed 17 executive orders shortly after his swearing-in, dealing with the pandemic, climate change, immigration and other pressing issues that reflected the dramatic divergence of his priorities from those of the vanquished Trump administration.
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1:56 p.m. Biden immigration bill nixes word “alien”: In a small but symbolic part of President Biden’s proposed sweeping immigration overhaul, the word “alien” will be removed from US immigration laws, replaced by “noncitizen,” CNN reports. “It’s a deliberate step intended to recognize America as “a nation of immigrants,” according to a summary of the bill. The